ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Other bacterial diseases
1C1A — Listeriosis
1C1A.1 — Listerial meningitis or meningoencephalitis
ICD-11 1C1A.1 — Listerial meningitis or meningoencephalitis
A disease of the meninges or brain, caused by an infection with the gram-positive bacteria Listeria. This disease is characterised by fever, headache, or neurological deficits. Transmission is through haematogenous spread to the meninges from ingestion of contaminated food. Confirmation is by identification of Listeria from cerebrospinal fluid.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Bacterial meningitis #672
- Bacterial meningitis #8793